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    612-822-4611

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The Biosecurity Individual: A Cultural Critique of the Intersection Between Health, Security, and Identity

The Biosecurity Individual: A Cultural Critique of the Intersection Between Health, Security, and Identity

Offizier, Frederike

Paperback

Series: American Culture Studies

Medical ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3837671453
ISBN13: 9783837671452
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: Apr 23 2024
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
Discoveries in biomedicine and biotechnology, especially in diagnostics, have made prevention and (self)surveillance increasingly important in the context of health practices. Frederike Offizier offers a cultural critique of the intersection between health, security and identity, and explores how the focus on risk and security changes our understanding of health and transforms our relationship to our bodies. Analyzing a wide variety of texts, from life writing to fiction, she offers a critical intervention on how this shift in the medical gaze produces new paradigms of difference and new biomedically facilitated identities: biosecurity individuals.

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